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Article describing how an airtight home shell helps achieve a tight envelope that is energy efficient and cost effective.

Study characterizing how foundation heat exchangers (FHXs) used in residential ground source heat pump systems represent a potential cost savings due to their lesser first cost over other types of heat exchangers.

Checklist highlighting the requirement for metal structural connections and materials fasteners used to retrofit or construct FORTIFIED buildings less than 3,000 ft from saltwater to be suitably protected from corrosion.

Web article discussing the primary approaches to waterproofing concrete foundations.

Document providing information on basement insulation, air sealing and water management retrofits.

Reports describing a mathematical methodology for assessing the seismic performance of buildings.

How hard can it be to insulate a flat sheet of concrete? I mean you only have three choices – on the top, on the bottom, or on the edge. OK, you might have some combination of the three as well.

Presentation describing the challenges of insulating an existing basement, presented to the Building America residential energy-efficiency stakeholder meeting.